From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:10:34 GMT
Subject: Re: friendlier names
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901271910070.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090127153837.GB1321@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
> > 
> > For example, why couldn't the "index" be called the "stage" instead?
> > That, along with knowing that "git add" was a synonym for "git stage"
> > would have flattened the learning curve considerably for me.
> 
> Historical reasons...
> 
> Waaay back the "index" was an index of the files git knows about in
> your working directory.  It made sense to call it an index, as like
> a book index it was a full listing of what's here, sorted by name.
> 
> That's pre-1.0 days.  Like the very first version Linus ever
> released.  Aka commit e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290.

Actually, it was known by the name "dircache" back then :-)

Ciao,
Dscho